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Southeast Asia's tech startups, fueled by massive funding and rapid growth, are now facing a challenging funding winter and a loss of investor confidence due to the collapse of the Vision Fund and global stock market decline.

After more than two hours of deliberations on the basis of an 87-page dossier, the high-powered jury for the Economic Times Startup Awards 2023 selected the eight winners from a cohort of 38 nominees.

A few weeks ago, Tata group company Titan hogged the headlines when it bought 27% stake in CaratLane (Titan has been a strategic investor since 2016). A cash exit for an Indian consumer internet entrepreneur is rare, more so when it comes as the broader industry is struggling to get the fundamentals right, and funding from risk investors has fallen precipitously.

The company also reported that it turned profitable in the second quarter of FY2023 (July-August-September).

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How this Noida startup is making relocation easy Logistics startup Shift Freight is a movers and packers marketplace that caters to B2C customers. Within a year of its launch, it claims to have recorded month-on-month growth of 60 percent. 0 claps Share on The movers and packers industry in India sees around 35,000-40,000 movements every day, but it still remains a very unorganised sector for the business-to-consumer (B2C) segment. Spotting an opportunity in the sector, Avinash Raghav started ...